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Disease Challenges in

High Value Crops:

The Manufacturer’s View

Alan Horgan

Technical Specialist

Open Only in an Emergency?

Ever tighter restrictions on use...a challenge for our industry

High Value Crops

• Definition

– Harvested by non-combinable equipment

– Soft/top fruit

– Ornamentals (forestry nurseries)

– Leafy/fruiting salad crops

– Protected potatoes

– Early/late vegetable production

Why do we need High Value Crops?

• Varied diet/food security

• Economic:

– Employment

– Import substitution

• Plant diversity

Challenges

• Resistance

• Crop Safety

• Registration

• Future weather patterns

• Engineering developments

• Political/NGO pressures

• Range of varieties/new crops

• Changes in growing practices

Targets Evolving

Target Evolving

And of course interlopers eg Xylela (Bacteria) – potential threat

on oak.

Registration Challenges

• Return on investment (ROI)

– Increasing costs (environmental impact)

– Increasing time scales (& national differences)

– Market size

• Data generation costs: “$250 million” new active

• Preliminary meeting: £5200 (expensive for minor crop)

• Risk versus hazard classification

• Crop hierarchies – groupings/residue (LODs)

• Move from conventional chemistry to biorationals

– Best practice/expectations

– Definition of control/reduction/suppression - variable

Registration Challenges(2)

• Substitution

• Parallel Imports – disincentive to invest

Future Challenges

• New competitor products

• Revocations

• Crop changes

– Weather related

– Lack of resources

– New crops/varieties

• Political/public views

• Work force skills

• BREXIT…what’s the deal!

21st Century Effects

• Advancement in computational processes

– ‘singularity’

– Modelling

• Robotics

• Genetics

• Point application

• Planning timelines

Certis’ Solutions Today

• Biorationals/Organic Acceptance

– Botanigard

– Agree 50

– Amylo-X

– Majestik/Eradicoat

– Spruzit

– Karma

– Jet 5

• Best practice guidance

• Certis stewardship support

Full Potential - How?

Broad Approach Required

Monitoring ICM/IPMAnti-

resistance strategies

StewardshipManaging

expectationsApplication

Sustainability

Thanks for your attention

• Alan Horgan

• Technical Specialist

• horgan@certiseurope.com

• Mobile 079 00 276 385

• Technical Hotline Service: 0845 373 0305